Ike Ibeabuchi Vs. Swarmers

How can you possibly write that. He was massively flawed mentally.

Hindsight shows that in particular in the Tua fight. No sane man is going to stand there and let Tua land his left hook all night.

Ibeabuchi has an illness that went undiscovered for a long time, but helped him make a name for himself as a boxer.

A sane Mr President is going to be a very ordinary fighter. But a punch a decent chin, may of got him to the fringes of being ranked in the world top 10; as we are talking Heavyweights.

 

And a sane Mike Tyson would have been ordinary too. Tyson believed he was some warrior going into the ring and was unstoppable. You have to be mentally a bit different to be a fighter, Ali, Foreman, even Holyfield and Holmes, all had ring persona's during their career.

Ike never showed craziness in the ring, and actually showed mental toughness in situations where an unstable crazy man would breakdown. Mcall was mentally unstable in the ring against Lewis for example.
I do think towards the end something was going very wrong with Ike, he started believing he was a president and started imagining things that werent happening, but this all went down relatively quickly after the Tua fight and I wonder if it was somehow related to him going off some kind of medication he was on?

 

No, unfortunately he started going downhill after he went on the medication.

 

I agree Tyson too, was ruined by boxing. I have stated before that I think a lot of that fault should be laid at D'Amato's feet. It has come out over the years that the supposed disciplinarian let a lot slide so his final project could succeed. Not great Fathering IMO.

Also how McCall was ever allowed to fight for the Lewis rematch, I will never know. Virtually everyone was calling that fight a accident waiting to happen; pre fight.

Sadly we chuckle uneasily, say 'only in boxing', to try defend it, and forget it as the next mentally scarred superstar comes along.

But I suspect it will never be resolved, not least because society cannot face up to the illness, let alone boxing...

 

Ok...